Poetry To-Go: June 22-29, 2023
When you are dining out, take a picture of the menu (or look up a menu online). Create a poem using words from the menu. Bonus points for 80% ratio of menu words.
The Submissions:
by Captain Quillard
I like a challenge (and bonus points), so this attempt at a poem uses only words found on the menu(s).
America.
Of the free.
Of milk and honey.
Of Madison and Hamilton and everything presidential.
Of Carolina and Kentucky and Alabama.
Chesapeake and Philly.
Of Ohio.
Of bourbon and bacon. Beer and cheese and Ranch and burger and Bluegrass.
Of undercooked perfection and
unseasoned spirit.
Riches and risk. Gold and corn sugar. Oil and illness.
The famous and the removed. The “have more” and the “have none.”
Gluten-free. Dairy-free.
Choice-free.
Plantation-whipped, dollar-squeezed, battered
by the all-consuming conditions of our country.
Dressing more of our kids in wings with the barrel of
each fresh shooter.
Red-eyed and blue.
Our house torched – blackened by a river of blood and
marinated in our bright, hot saline. A country crumbled and
braised raw with hellfire from a crude orange baby and the Savile Row kings on the take.
Half refreshing, you may add,
to know it’s your last stand.
Zero options available to try. No recipe to improve upon
or generals to charge our side forward.
Aged by all you bear and all you know, especially one simple, cold secret:
It can’t be cured.
by Espy la Copa
Lunch break poetry, thinkin' 'bout drinkin' :)
The Only Mercy for a Bitter Heart is a Tender Axe
https://www.tendermercy.com/menu
welcome, Ghost
welcome, mist
welcome, fake Heart
bitter Ghost, shot
bitter mist, dirty
bitter fake Heart, Garbage
Don't You Wanna, Big thyme sugar?
batavia verjus arrack saccharum bruto corazon bruto bruto bruto!
house
bad, cold, dark, bitter Story
Return, Ghost
Return, red, red mist
Return, beet, Broken fake Heart
Don't, Heart Killer. Don't Return.
Next Week’s Assignment:
We missed Flag Day, but we’ll do this in honor of Independence Day instead.
Design your own flag or crest. Bonus points if you include some kind of motto in Latin or an explanation of the symbolism behind your design.